I've never understood the "expensive" security clearance

Jun 10, 2021
12:00:31pm

justAnotherCoug All-American

The contractors aren't paying for security clearances.

The problem is time. If they need TS it is taking 1.5 - 2 years to complete.

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justAnotherCoug

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Northrop Grumman is trying to fill 600+ jobs that require a security clearance

jrifkin48

6/10/21 11:00am

Why are wars and conflicts going to ramp up? You have inside info?

pink22

6/10/21 11:01am

Wars and rumors of wars!

JohnnyC

6/10/21 11:02am

Yeah well we seem to have less war now than most points in history

pink22

6/10/21 11:04am

Thanks Trump!

Division Bell

6/10/21 11:09am

Amazing he didnt win the peace prize.

Backcountry

6/10/21 11:11am

So much going on during those first few weeks in office he never got around to it. After a month or so it was too late.

Division Bell

6/10/21 11:13am

All this talk of UFOs and now this. Something HUGE is going on.

CrimWalCoug

6/10/21 11:16am

RE: Why are wars and conflicts going to ramp up? You have inside info?

Penske Material

6/10/21 11:04am

We just went through 4 years of no new wars

jrifkin48

6/10/21 11:05am

Come work with me!

rggee

6/10/21 11:26am

I interviewed with them. It would be a promotion in job title, decrease in pay.

Mayor of Cougartown

6/10/21 11:26am

Really? What job and what was the offer? That surprises me

rggee

6/10/21 11:28am

Defense Contractors are known to low ball pay on vets because they know...

jrifkin48

6/10/21 11:34am

Plus terrible Healthcare options with the contractor company

ral1988

6/10/21 11:46am

Defense Contractors are known to low ball pay ~~on vets~~

supertux

6/10/21 4:25pm

Actually to tie together the above two comments...

justAnotherCoug

6/10/21 4:43pm

I've never understood the "expensive" security clearance

justAnotherCoug

6/10/21 12:00pm

If you can get someone who already has one then the costs come down

jrifkin48

6/10/21 12:08pm

yeah the process is a bit of a joke honestly. The people YOU choose

Mayor of Cougartown

6/10/21 12:16pm

You know they don't only talk to the people you list on the form, right?

justAnotherCoug

6/10/21 12:33pm

It's not a Northrop employee doing the background investigation

justAnotherCoug

6/10/21 12:34pm

my BIL just got one in 8 months. For Northrop, for this program in fact.

Mayor of Cougartown

6/10/21 12:14pm

There are a lot of variables

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